Patients with ALS can use sensorimotor rhythms to operate a brain-computer interface
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- 24 May 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 64 (10) , 1775-1777
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000158616.43002.6d
Abstract
People with severe motor disabilities can maintain an acceptable quality of life if they can communicate. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which do not depend on muscle control, can provide communication. Four people severely disabled by ALS learned to operate a BCI with EEG rhythms recorded over sensorimotor cortex. These results suggest that a sensorimotor rhythm–based BCI could help maintain quality of life for people with ALS.Keywords
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